For this year’s 40th edition, which wrapped Sept. 2, Telluride beat the Lido to the punch on three pics, Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin,” Errol Morris docu “The Unknown Known” – both in competition at Venice – and Gia Coppola’s “Palo Alto.”

While it’s not the first time Telluride “sneak peeks” a Venice title first, fest typically does Venice the courtesy of waiting at least a few hours after a film’s world preem on the Lido before screening the same movie in the States.

Also, Telluride stole Venice’s thunder in a much bigger way this year. But Toronto got hit even worse.

Barbera said that regarding two titles this year, he had no idea what Telluride was up to, most notably with Glazer’s “Under the Skin,” which ended up getting a better response from critics in Venice than in Telluride.

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VENICE – Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera is peeved about Telluride stepping up the number of its world-preem “sneak previews” this year and he intends to put a freeze on it going forward. “For next year, we will all have to be agreed on the ground rules: if a movie is in competition […]

VENICE – Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera is peeved about Telluride stepping up the number of its world-preem “sneak previews” this year and he intends to put a freeze on it going forward. “For next year, we will all have to be agreed on the ground rules: if a movie is in competition […]

VENICE – Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera is peeved about Telluride stepping up the number of its world-preem “sneak previews” this year and he intends to put a freeze on it going forward. “For next year, we will all have to be agreed on the ground rules: if a movie is in competition […]

VENICE – Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera is peeved about Telluride stepping up the number of its world-preem “sneak previews” this year and he intends to put a freeze on it going forward. “For next year, we will all have to be agreed on the ground rules: if a movie is in competition […]

VENICE – Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera is peeved about Telluride stepping up the number of its world-preem “sneak previews” this year and he intends to put a freeze on it going forward. “For next year, we will all have to be agreed on the ground rules: if a movie is in competition […]

VENICE – Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera is peeved about Telluride stepping up the number of its world-preem “sneak previews” this year and he intends to put a freeze on it going forward. “For next year, we will all have to be agreed on the ground rules: if a movie is in competition […]

VENICE – Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera is peeved about Telluride stepping up the number of its world-preem “sneak previews” this year and he intends to put a freeze on it going forward. “For next year, we will all have to be agreed on the ground rules: if a movie is in competition […]